Oliver Conway

It has two button eyes set into a face and body coated in soft knitwear.

It looks cute and cuddly, and that's the point.

This is one of a new wave of domestic bots designed to live with us and help us run our homes.

We've just walked up to see NEO in action and someone is operating NEO right now and watering all the plants.

I've just been told this is what they do all day, carrying out tasks and testing all day long.

Good accuracy.

Oh, I spoke too soon.

Aside from the spill, Neo did a good job of watering the plants.

It also fetched me a bottle of water.

Thank you.

And tidied away some crockery.

Impressive.

But all of this was done by a human controlling it.

Neo's creator, Burnt Bornich from One X, though, says Neo can do lots of things on its own and has become truly useful in his home.

Does a pretty good job of, like, tidying.

So, like, resetting my living room and my house in general.

And that's all someone with a VR headset?

It's a mix.

It's a mix.

So in my home, we have a lot of data.